from HarperCollins<\/a>. Did I mention he’s a teenager?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In January 2014 a teenage design student from Slovakia named Martin Vargic posted a map of the Internet\u2014inspired, he told The Independent, by the xkcd classic\u2014on his DeviantArt page. The map quickly went viral. 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<\/a>In January 2014 a teenage design student from Slovakia named Martin Vargic<\/a> posted a map of the Internet<\/a>\u2014inspired, he told The Independent<\/em><\/a>, by the xkcd classic<\/a>\u2014on his DeviantArt page<\/a>. The map quickly went viral. Since then, he’s been producing maps of all sorts of things\u2014a revised Internet map<\/a>, a literature map<\/a>, historical maps, maps of the world after global warming<\/a> and an ice age<\/a>, a stereotype map<\/a> (see previous entry<\/a>), plus other infographics\u2014at a dizzying pace, most of which are available for sale on his website<\/a>. Now his maps are being collected in a book, Vargic’s Miscellany of Curious Maps<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. It’s out now in the U.K. from Penguin imprint Michael Joseph<\/a>; in North America it’ll be available in December from HarperCollins<\/a>. Did I mention he’s a teenager?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"